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词汇 olive-branch
释义 olive branch
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɒl.ɪv ˌbrɑːntʃ/ us /ˈɑː.lɪv ˌbræntʃ/
something that you say or do in order to show that you want to end a disagreement with someone: (象征和平的)橄榄枝;和解的建议(或姿态)
to hold out/offer/extend an olive branch伸出橄榄枝
He held out an olive branch to the opposition by releasing 42 political prisoners.他释放了42名政治犯,以此向反对派表达了和解的愿望。
Her speech offered an olive branch to Republicans.
This was an olive branch to his critics.
The offer could be seen as an olive branch.
He expressed disappointment with the speech, saying "I'm disappointed that there will be no olive branches, that there will be no conciliation."
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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Examples of olive branch


olive branch
The hall was decorated with furnishings requisitioned from private palaces, as well as the banner of liberty topped by an olivebranch.
At the time the article was published this was something of an olivebranch offered to those readers with an avant-garde past.
He has thrown out what he calls an olivebranch; he wants to try to find a middle line between conflicting views.
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It seems that here we have an olivebranch offered to us.
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The olivebranch has been held out by this side, and you have spurned it.
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I do not think it was an olivebranch at all.
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They both regarded the release of these persons as an "olivebranch" which might safely and prudently be held out at the present time.
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Already the waters are receding and shortly the dove will alight with the olivebranch.
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Would he not ask his senior colleagues to pick up what is quite clearly an olivebranch?
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But that olivebranch has been rejected with contumely by the promoters.
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I throw out that suggestion as an olivebranch.
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It is not an olivebranch, because for an olivebranch to succeed it must bear some kind of practical resemblance to the tree.
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Cannot we offer him petrol rationing with one hand, and an olivebranch with the other?
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I shall not attempt to wield the tomahawk to cut down that olivebranch now that it has been brought before us.
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It is, so to speak, the consultation olivebranch as regards the change in designation.
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